To galvanize the public to express their support and need for paid parental leave legislation, telling the stories of parents in the first six months of raising their child is fundamental.
Healthy brain development in young children needs quality sleep, bonding, language development in combination with less stress and anxiety. Sacha Kyle, LSX Fellow, has creatively combined these elements into two projects.
Experts are sure that kids who get regular, good quality sleep are healthier, physically and mentally, and have better learning, memory and behaviour. But did you know that some children are genetically predisposed to how well they sleep?
What do you do with a group of extraordinary teenagers in a class together with no common language? You get creative! One teacher did just this and brought his Zurich class to the Johann Jacobs Museum.
Professor Carolina de Weerth has been working with first graders through the Jacobs Foundation TRECC program in Côte d’Ivoire to determine whether an inexpensive probiotic food supplement can be linked to better cognitive functioning.
1000 schools across 10 countries are part of the Schools2030 program, which seeks to understand how, over a ten year period, schools can be empowered to design and implement locally-rooted solutions to improve holistic learning outcomes.
How can higher education and university teaching be improved? Discovering this is the goal of the joint initiative B3 (Bildung Beyond Boundaries) by the Jacobs Foundation and the Jacobs University.
IB and Jacobs Foundation join forces. Curiosity and creativity are skills students need in the 21st century. But how can we do a better job of encouraging, studying and evaluating these skills?
